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Photosynthesis more ancient than thought, and most living things could do it

2016-03-16 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and cyanobacteria use the energy from the Sun to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen as a waste product. But a few groups of bacteria carry out a simpler form of photosynthesis that does not produce oxygen, which evolved first. A new study by an Imperial researcher suggests that this more primitive form of photosynthesis evolved in much more ancient bacteria than scientists had imagined, more than 3.5 billion years ago....

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Will family living costs put your farm out of business?

2016-03-15 23:12:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Farmers need to get serious and truly appreciate how much family living expenses can impact the profitability of a farm business. The numbers tell us that family living cost and taxes are two areas in which to capture significant savings. Road Warrior read more

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PET scans can stage Alzheimers disease in living people

2016-03-08 17:00:04| Extremetech

For a while we thought amyloid plaques were the smoking gun in Alzheimer's disease, but new research out of Berkeley has shown us some surprising details about the spread of Alzheimer's through the brain - and used PET imaging to stage the disease in living people for the first time.

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